No more Kindle for me.

The Viking wrote: Just popped back on to see what is being talked about on this site. Wow! Really noticing a pattern here.......

Take care......

Yeah, so am I. Is this is all you can manage these days, a drive-by bash of one thread? How about reading something in the Barnraisers forum, like where several people have been helping the Mountain Peace Shelter get their new Boutique and admin offices ready to open?
Fun House?
Community Events, News, and Calendar to see what's going on in the community?
The JOY International forum, where you'll learn about one of the most amazing, spiritual, intelligent, compassionate men ever, who goes to the most god-awful places on earth and rescues children (ages 4-17) himself, with help from his international team, from forced servitude in brothels? One of his operatives just got caught and beaten so badly he ended up in the hospital. He tells tales that break your heart; I've yet to have a meeting with him where I haven't ended up crying at least once. There is a great group of people, including Pastor Lance Swearengin of the Conifer Community Church, Pastor Greg Blake of the Elk Creek Community Church, Janet Shown the director of the Conifer Community Park, and many other wonderful people, in the early stages of planning two fundraising events for him this summer and fall and we could use all the help we can get - come to our next meeting March 22nd at 11:30am at the Conifer Community Church and get involved!

It might improve your spirits if you jumped in and helped out in your community! :thumbsup: We've all noticed that our businesses are hurting, houses are standing empty (although I've heard from one realtor that houses under $200K in Bailey are going like hotcakes right now), thrift stores are even struggling. If you want to help change that - watch for when neighbors and businesses post looking for help, and get active!

When I bought 285Bound, I thought I was just buying a site that I was already heavily involved with and wouldn't be doing anything different than I already had been doing. Wrong. There is so much more that can be done, and who better than us, the people who are most affected who live in this community? Even on my worst days dealing with stuff I don't want to here, my daughter stubbornly refusing to conform to anyone's schedule but her own, feeling like I'm so far behind on my to-do list that I'll never see my husband again from around my computer screen, my pets treating the carpet as their own personal bathroom, etc, I can't help but be in a good spirit because of how I'm helping to make a positive difference in this community. And you can feel that way too, I promise you. You don't have to give money, just your time and effort, in a myriad of ways. Rather than complaining about "how negative this site is", or how we can't keep from "partisan bashing one another", get out and help your neighbors - it puts the other stuff in a better, more realistic perspective.



As for the Kindles, I still love mine. I can share books, although no one but my hubby's taken me up on it yet. I can borrow from the library (yes, the Conifer library offers e-book lending too) and I don't have to carry a stack of them on the airplane for a long vacation - it holds 1,500. Am I happy that they aren't as discounted as they used to be? No, but I knew that wouldn't last, and just like print books, you can always find deals if you are willing to spend the time looking.